The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
Peter Maxwell Davies

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
Townsend Harris

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
Edward Levi

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
Alex North

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.
Marvin Hamlisch

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.
Donnie Yen

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.
Julie Taymor

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.
Jill Scott

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
Harold Pinter

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
Paul Robeson

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe

To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I am also proud of my performing in the visual arts, and motion television.
Chris Burke

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown